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Paul Le Wol

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  1. Hi Everyone, I hope you are all well. Thank you very much for the Comments and Likes. The bulkheads at the fore and aft ends of the main deck have been sided with 1/32" horizontal edge glued strips of 5/64" AYC. The sliding doors were glued to the siding and then everything was painted with Vallejo Model Air White Grey (71.119). 

     

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    The chafing planks were finished to the forward end.

     

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    The bulwark planking was done next. There is a stanchion in there so there was a lot of measuring and cutting

     

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    These areas had to be completed before the Main Deck House could be installed. The bulwarks were airbrushed and except for a few attachment points  she is ready for the deck house and the sub deck.

     

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    Hope to see you soon!

  2. Hi Everyone, hope you are all well. Thank you for the Comments and Likes. I had a bit of a setback last week. This is part of a photo that Phil @Dr PR posted in his SS Wapama 1915 Steam Schooner thread. I had not noticed in other photos or drawings how prominent the planks just above the guard at the stern were.

     

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    The drawings show that the bulwark planks are 3 3/4" thick and the hull planking is 4 1/2" thick. Adding this detail would mean that these planks would have to extend down to the guards all the way to the bow. The guards would hide the fact that 1/32" planks were added. Well that's the hope anyway.

    Starting at the stern, three strakes were added. Two @ !/32"x1/8" and one @ 1/32"x5/64". The scuppers had to be filed into the new veneer planks.

     

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    I decided to remove the guards port and starboard because they drifted down a bit at the bow. Gluing the new guards back on under the new planking went a lot easier. The new planks were feathered into the hull planks at the bow before they get to the metal anchor protection plates

     

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    While this was going on the chafing planks were attached to the main rails. I just happened to have a rigid cardboard shipping tube that was the right size to hold it at the curved part.

     

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    The main deckhouse was glued together and placed on a jig in order to complete the doors and siding.

     

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    This is what she looks like today.

     

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    Next will be the hawse pipes and portlights. Hope to see you then.

  3. 16 minutes ago, Dr PR said:

    Paul,

     

    It is hard to say how close the deck color in the photos is to reality. These were old color slides and there was some slight greenish color shift. That was corrected in the edited version I posted. It had rained (or heavy fog) the day I took the photos so the deck was damp, and that can cause the wood to appear a darker color.

     

    But it is clear that the decks had not been scrubbed or holystoned and bleached in a LONG time - if ever. It was a working ship and a lot of dirt and tree bark must have been ground in to the wood over the years. Scrubbing the decks to satisfy some admiral probably was never done!

     

    Also, I don't know if the museum had applied any type of coating to preserve the wood.

     

    On the other hand, since we will never know what the actual color was, using the color in the photos is a step better than a wild guess!

    Thank you for the reply Phil. I think I will experiment with some different colors and try to get something close.

  4. 9 hours ago, Jim Lad said:

    Delightful progress, Paul.

     

    John

    Hi John, thank you very much!

     

    5 hours ago, Dr PR said:

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    Maybe it is because I have walked the Wapama's decks and am very fond of this ship, I would vote for painting the model. The fully detailed and realistically painted model is as close as we can get to visiting the ship now.

    Hi Phil, thank you for expressing your thoughts and feelings. You must have great memories of Wapama. Thinking back, would you say that the color of the decks in your photos is close to the original?

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